More details about the series have been released

The Netflix docuseries will arrive on the streaming service this June.

More details, as well as a concrete release date, have been released by Netflix for their upcoming 'Sophie: A Murder in West Cork' docuseries.

The series will consist of three episodes, which will include footage shot both in West Cork and in France. Contributors who will appear include Sophie Toscan du Plantier's family, including her son Pierre-Louis Baudey. Residents from Schull and the local press who were writing stories about the mysterious and brutal murder which took place in her holiday home in 1996.

The series is directed by BAFTA nominee John Dower. Suzanne Lavery and Simon Chinn, the executive producers on the series said: "Sophie was much more than a victim of a murder.  She was a mother, a daughter, a sister, a filmmaker and a writer. Whatever actually happened on that cold December night in 1996, the story is one of a collision of worlds, cultures and characters and it was that which drew us to it.

"But it was meeting and gaining the trust of Sophie’s family which really gave us our purpose. Justice has eluded them for a quarter of a century since Sophie’s death and their main aim in cooperating with us to make this series is to do justice to her memory. We hope we have achieved that, for them."

This is the first Sophie Toscan du Plantier documentary series to be released this year. A second separate series, directed by Jim Sheridan, is expected to arrive later this year and has been produced by Sky.

The official synopsis for the Netflix docuseries is as follows: "Sophie’s brutal murder in one of the most beautiful and remote regions of Ireland shocked the country and triggered one of the biggest investigations it had ever seen - and over the next two and a half decades became a national obsession in both Ireland and France. With access both to the victim's family and those involved in the story, the series unravels this extraordinary story from its beginnings and offers a unique window into the ongoing battle to find justice for Sophie."

'Sophie: A Murder in West Cork' launches on Netflix June 30.